Architect：CoDA Arquitetura

Location：6427+PH - Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil; | ;View Map

Project Year：2023

Category：Offices

When the pandemic hit in 2020, our architectural practice was forced to rethink our logistics and work out of office. As time passed, we decided to leave our old physical space and work remotely with occasional meetings. That was until 2022, when fellow practices invited us to share a floor in a historical building in Brasília, where we’re based.

Brasília, the capital of Brazil built in the 60’s, has a renowned urban planning listed in UNESCO’s World Heritage List, with very characteristic architecture mixing Brazilian modern and post-modern styles. We’re honored to occupy a 70’s building by the architect João Filgueiras Lima, also known as Lele, centered in the heart of the city, in a commercial area that lost attention in the late 90s-early 2000s but has recently been going through a revitalization.

The building itself is almost completely built in precast concrete – with modular slabs, walls, façades and even precast windows. The interior of our office thus intends to emphasize its original features, its modular layout, as well as the apparent electrical installations and concrete.

The floor itself, shared with other architecture practices, follows the layout division imagined by BLOCO Arquitetos, which occupies the upper floor. CoDA’s space, occupies a 990 ft2 rectangle inside the a little over 4,320 square-feet floor. Seeking simplicity, our space was divided by four, its program composed of the team’s workspace, a meeting room, a small office kitchen and a server room.

The working area accommodates twelve workstations, displayed along two long tables with free circulation in both sides - emphasizing an internal glass façade on one side, and the building's windows on the other. All internal divisions, lighting and layout disposition, including the interior façade’s frames, follow the existing modules of the building.

The office kitchen and server room occupy the last 2.2 meters wide module of the space, with symmetric access doors on either side of the office. The doors retract themselves behind a bookshelf that divides the settings, and neither the bookshelf nor the doors go all the way to the concrete ceiling

Across the office, enclosed by a glass wall with iron  you’ll find yourself in the meeting room, filled with a blend of new and vintage furniture by Brazilian modernist designers, and a 5-meter-wide custom-made wooden console.

The overall materiality of the project was designed based on the preexisting elements of the building. The white fiber panels and the existing concrete. So, white is a predominant color, as well as dark wood furniture, as a counterbalance. The windows have iconic orange brise-soleils, which inspired the carpet flooring and the kitchen's hydraulic tiles, as well as the office's new trademark color.

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